Man, I have a 3DS, but Monster Hunter 4 should have been for Vita... Seriously, the game could have looked and I'm sure played much better with two analogs. Not to mention MH on PSP was the go-to thing for people especially in Japan. A lot of those people probably got a Vita in hopes of the next one on there.

Oh well though, not like I'd give Crapcom any of my money for ANY game anyway. Just putting in my two cents, which is my opinion of course. Nothing less, nothing more.

I owned my 3ds first and until the new Pokemon have regretted every second of it. Only a hand full of games I actually enjoy, no features outside of games which make the 3ds a valid purchase, the Nintendo store is a hot mess, the 3d feature makes my head hurt. I love that I have an r4i that works on it but if the 3ds isn't cracked soon ill never own a 3ds game outside of Zelda which came with the special edition. I think capcom is shooting themselves in the foot with this deal.

MH can go to hell. I dont give a flying F about this game anymore! Trying to kill the machine that BROUGHT them where they are now! What pricks. I hope they get served with bad sales! Soul Sacrifice all the way!

Good riddance!!, when GTA was exclusive to the ps2 for a couple of years I doubt anyone was complaining like little b*tches, glad this series is exclusive on the 3DS and WiiU, glad the handheld I love is getting amazing support :)

Now in two months time I'll be getting a WiiU for the sole reason to play Monster Hunter in HD

I know that's your opinion but it's wrong 3ds isn't that great of a system it's only relevant because of pokemon, and Zelda. Not going to lie the Mario games been shit. The wii u yea it's good but you will stop playing it a month in. Monster hunter isn't really good game either.... Again all is my opinion. I had 3ds for 3 months regretted it then sold it instantly, have the vita a much better handheld system that when it has games coming to it just puts your 3ds in its place 6ft under the ground...

"Man, I have a 3DS, but Monster Hunter 4 should have been for Vita... Seriously, the game could have looked and I'm sure played much better with two analogs."

This why not everyone can be made CEO of a company - MH Vita with better graphics would mean that the developers would have to spend more money than what they did with the 3DS MH.

Now tell me how this makes any sense business wise to spend more money on a game that does not even half the install base that the 3DS has?

Consumers do not look at the spending cost part of making a game and only look at the receiving end which is just make the dam game and do not worry if it bombs or sells...this is why Sony is in the red right now because the make game like iNfamous, Heavy Rain, Twisted Metal, Battle Royal, Killzone and Resistance which are great games but do not sell enough to break even or make a profit.

3DS is outselling the PSV something like 20:1 in Japan. Last gen the PSP had a good initial uptake in Japan off the back off the PS2. The PS2 was popular so some of that translated to PSP sales.

Unfortunately the PS3 isn't quite the hit the PS2 was and Sony no longer hold the exclusivity of intellectual property that they once did. There's far less reason for the Japanese to pick up Sony's new handheld than there was the PSP and as a result it makes sense that publishers like Capcom would want their games on the most popular system for their target demographic.

With the Vita's current install base it's really not worth developing for, to be honest. At best you're looking at 500k units sold. On the 3DS you can shift a few million. There's a big difference and I imagine that alongside the incentive from Nintendo made it an easy decision.

That's somewhat true, but the thing is. Monster Hunter is what pushed the sales of the PSP in Japan, not riding off the PS2. The PSP wasn't doing huge numbers in Japan until late in it's lifecycle, and it's still doing well which is the problem.

The PSP is cutting into the sales of the Vita. World WIde both the PSP and PSV are selling similar numbers 80k per week.. The Vita has a near even split across the world (30k, 30k, 20k), while the PSP is selling (2k, 9k, 70k), and that 70,000 is being sold in Japan alone for the PSP.

On top of that Monster Hunter is a system seller in Japan as proven by the significant boost in sales when the games came to the PSP, and when it launched on the 3DS. Capcom knows this, and they know that if the release it on Vita it's still going to sell 1+ mil copies. THey just don't want to take the chance. They'd rather have another PSP quality game and a check than improve the entire series by releasing it for Vita or even consoles.

It's like people are forgetting the last console generation. The Xbox was much more powerful than the PS2 and the GameCube was slightly so, and yet all the big games came out on the PlayStation because, like the 3DS, it had the larger install base. I never heard anyone complaining then.

If it was exclusive to the 3DS, why would it come to the Wii U? Unless he means, it's exclusive to Nintendo for 3 years. So, would 4 be the last game to be exclusive to the 3DS or does it start with 4?